Torquay United have broken plenty of records already on their way to the National League South championship, but they will have to rely on their fans for another notable one when Hungerford Town arrive at Plainmoor for the last home game of the season on Monday (3pm).

The record attendance for the division is held by Weymouth, who pulled in 5,022 for an end-of-season match against St Albans City 13 years ago.

The Gulls drew 4,538 for the 2-0 win over Eastbourne Borough which clinched the title nine days ago and, with the trophy due to be presented after the on-pitch action, they are hoping to top 5,000 this time.

In the wake of Good Friday's below-par 2-1 defeat at mid-table Chippenham Town, which drew some blunt criticism from manager Gary Johnson, the Gulls will not want to bow out at home with another disappointment which would dampen the celebrations.

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With St Albans away next Saturday still to come, Johnson looked ahead when he said: "They've got two opportunities to show us what they've got and what they can do with next year in mind."

One man who deserves to be in on the fun but won't be is second-top scorer Saikou Janneh, whose is back at Bristol City after scoring 18 goals in a hugely significant seven-month loan spell.

Janneh, only 19, contributed far more than his goals, and Johnson was quick to admit that United missed his 'energy and work-rate' at Chippenham.

With Ruairi Keating also sidelined and the combination of Jamie Reid and Kalvin Kalala not really clicking up front on Friday, it brings one more young striker into contention for a first league start.

Academy prospect Olaf Koszela may be only just 17, with the ink hardly dry on his first pro contract, but he looks older than his years on the pitch, scored a well-taken first senior goal off the bench at Chippenham and Johnson will be thinking of throwing him in from kick-off now.

Johnson's decision to rely on the quality, togetherness and conditioning, plus the skills of physio Dan Feasey, of a squad which has seldom been more than 17-strong in 2019 has paid off big time.

But recent injuries to players like Asa Hall and Keating, and now the return of Janneh to Bristol, have finally left him up against it numbers-wise.

Midfield captain Hall is back, but one or two, like Reid and Liam Davis, had to run off knocks during the course of Friday's defeat, and Davis was taken off in the 70th minute.

The 32-year-old former Coventry, Peterborough, Northampton, Oxford, Yeovil and Cheltenham left-back has been soldiering on with assorted niggles, but he will hardly want to drop out now - with 46 league and cup appearances to his name, Davis is the only 'ever present' in United's squad this season.

Hungerford, possibly the smallest club in the division, have clawed their way out of the bottom-three in recent weeks with a run of only two defeats in eight games.

They have beaten Eastbourne, Billericay and Hampton & Richmond in that spell, as well as drawing with Woking, and Friday's 0-0 draw at home to Play-Off chasing Bath City was typical of the sort of determined performances they have been producing of late.

Popular manager Ian Herring has always had to rely on loan signings to bolster his squad and one of the current ones will ring a bell with Gulls fans.

Cameron Hargreaves is a 20-year-old midfielder who started his career at Exeter City before graduating as a pro at Bristol Rovers, and he is the son of former United manager and promotion-winning captain Chris Hargreaves.

On the record front, United have already set new club 'bests' this season for - Longest Undefeated League Run (16), Successive League Wins (10), Most Total Goals (105 and counting) and Best FA Cup win (7-0).

Still available are - League Goals and Wins (currently level on both counts), Points (one more needed to equal 86 in 1959-60 and 2007-2008) and Goals Conceded (currently 40 against the 41 which United let in during the 46-game 1987-88 season under the late Cyril Knowles).